Remove EXIF Data from Photos

This removes the hidden EXIF data from a photo — GPS coordinates, camera serial, timestamps — and gives you back the picture with the information gone. Every photo your phone takes carries more than the picture. There is usually a GPS fix of exactly where you were standing, the make and model of the phone, the moment it was taken, and sometimes your name. Post that photo to a marketplace listing, a rental ad or a dating profile and you have published your address without meaning to. This tool shows you what is in your file first, then removes it — and it does both on your own device, because a privacy tool that uploads your photos is not a privacy tool.

How to use it

1. Add your photos — JPEG or PNG, up to 20 at once.
2. You are told what was found: location, camera, date taken, editing software.
3. The hidden data is cut out and the picture is handed back untouched. Nothing is re-encoded, so no quality is lost.
4. One photo downloads on its own; several come back as a zip.

Examples

• A phone photo for a marketplace listing, with the GPS fix at your front door taken out
• Twenty holiday pictures cleaned at once before they go in a shared album

Frequently asked questions

What does a photo reveal about me?

More than most people expect. A phone photo typically embeds the exact latitude and longitude where it was taken — accurate to a few metres, which for a picture taken at home is your address — along with the phone's make and model, the date and time to the second, and often the software used to edit it. Some cameras add an owner name and serial number. None of this is visible when you look at the picture, which is precisely the problem: you cannot check it by eye, so this page reads it out and shows you.

Does this change the picture itself?

No. The metadata sits in its own blocks in the file, separate from the pixels, and this cuts those blocks out and copies everything else through byte for byte. The image is never decoded and re-encoded, so there is no quality loss and no visible difference at all — the file just gets smaller. That is worth knowing because many tools that claim to strip metadata actually re-save the image, which quietly recompresses it.

Do social networks not remove this already?

The large ones usually do strip EXIF when you upload, which is why this is less of a problem on Instagram than people fear. But it is not universal and it is not something you control: messaging apps vary, file-sharing and cloud links often keep the original intact, and anything you email or send as a document attachment almost certainly does. The moment a photo travels as a file rather than through a platform's own pipeline, whatever is inside it travels too.

Should I keep the colour profile?

Usually yes, which is why it is on by default. The ICC colour profile is technically metadata, but it is the part that tells a screen how to display the colours correctly — remove it and a photo can come back looking washed out or oddly warm. It says nothing about you or where you were, so there is no privacy reason to drop it. Turn it off only if you need the file absolutely bare for some technical reason.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. The reading and the stripping both happen in your browser, on your device, and no part of the file is ever sent to us or to anyone else. You can prove it: load this page, disconnect from the internet, and it still works. This matters more here than on any other tool we have — a page that offered to protect your privacy by first taking a copy of your photographs would be worse than useless.